The Secret Of Sufism Is That It

Better To Be Safe Than To Be Sorry' Is A Remark Of Value Only When These Are The Actual Alternatives.

You Need Not Wonder Whether You Should Have An Unreliable Person As A Friend. An Unreliable Person Is Nobody's Friend.

The Proverb Says That 'the Answer To A Fool Is Silence'. Observation, However, Indicates That Almost Any Other Answer Will Have The Same Effect In The Long Run.

Scholars Of The East And West Have Heroically Consecrated Their Whole Working Lives To Making Available, By Means Of Their Own Disciplines, Sufi Literary And Philosophical Material To The World At Large. In Many Cases They Have Faithfully Recorded The Sufis' Own Reiteration That The Way Of The Sufis Cannot Be Understood By Means Of The Intellect Or By Ordinary Book Learning.

The Sufi Way Is Through Knowledge And Practice, Not Through Intellect And Talk.